The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1887-10-14
ACCELERATED CASE
REVIVED ny A CONFESSION.
Tho Famous Case Of Cashier Barron, Who
Was suspected Of Taking FITS Own Life
to Hide n Crims-lIIs Honor vindi.
4, cRtsd After. Nine Years. EE

NRw YoRK, Oct. l3-Tho World pub
lishes twelvs.column confession by
Charles Francis Stain concerning tht
murder Of Cashier ]. W. Barron, Of thu
National Savings bank. at Dexter, Maine
on February 90, 1878. and the robbery O
the bank. The robbery and the death O.
Barron caused great sensation at tht
time, and the mystery attending the mat
ter has never been cleared up. Barron
was found on the evening Of that holiday
lying bleeding and unconscious in The
bank vault. The door Of the vault wa
open, but the funds were untouched, and
only $500 In money and $500 bond were
missing from the cash drawer. The story
was started that Barron had committed
suicide to avoid exposure Of some miscon.
duct toward the bank. This was never
proved, but tho family OF the dead
man has suffered socially on &C.
count Of the allegations. The World
says that young man named
Charles Francis Stain has now made q
statement that no and bis father, David
Stain, with Oliver Smith, alias Cromwell,
well.known criminal, and four men,
named Andrews, Thompson, Scott and
keely, were tho authors OF the crime,
They had procured Impressions Of ali the
lockB In the building where the bank was
located and took advantage OF the holiday,
when the building seemed deserted, to
gain entrance by false keys. In opening
the vault room door David Stain found
himself face 10 face with Barron, who had
been to the coal closet and was returning
with ecuttlo In one hand and q shovel
in the other. The vault door was unlock.
cd and the cashier was apparently arraug-
ing to count the funds and verify his &C.
counts. Stain at once struck him several
blows with slung shot, rendering him
Unconscious, and Cromwell then came up
and helped Stain gag and bind the senss.
less man. The robbers did not dare to
stay to ransack the vault. They took a
key from Barron's pocket, opened the
cash drawer and took the loose caoh and
hurriedly fed. David Stain was arrested
at Franklin, Mass, yesterday.
Charles +. Stain, who told the story OF
the robbery OF the Dexter bank and the
murder OF Cashier Barron, has been porter
IN hotel in Augusta, Maine. He left bis
father bscause the old man wanted him to
join in the petty rascsli.ies that the latter
bad been committing for years around
Medield, Mass., and other places where
he lived. Young Stain was forced by his
father at the point OF a revolver, to swear
that hew ould never: tell what he knew,
but after remaining silent for years
through fear Of his fathers vengeance, he
finally yielded to the promptingo of conaci.
encs and told HISTORY to detective. The
officer spent several weeks in verifying
the details, and found the story correct
The arrests Of old Stain and Uoinwell fol.
lowed. Both men have very bad repu.
tation in their neighborhood, but were
not suspected Of being such criminals.
A dispatch from Dexter says that Mrs.
Barron is ovetioyed O. tho vinuication Of
her late husbands character from the
cruel insi1uations againat it. =, . !,